Kleinbahn Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil

Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil
Route Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil 1938
Route number :	PKP : 258
Course book range :	Hendschels Telegraph: 2995 (May 1914), DR 120c (1939)
Route length:	5.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Głomno – Białystok railway from Głomno 0.0 Wöterkeim Kleinbahnhof (Wiatrowiec Warmiński) Railway line Głomno – Białystok to Białystok 1.6 Return sheaves (Rygarby) 3.7 Sępopol Roszarnia (established after the Second World War) 5.1 Schippenbeil (Sępopol) Swell:

The Kleinbahn Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil was a small railway company in the East Prussian district of Bartenstein , which was called Kreis Friedland until 1927.

history

When the East Prussian Southern Railway (today's Głomno – Białystok ) opened its line from Bartenstein in the direction of Rastenburg in 1867 , the small town of Schippenbeil was left behind , although it already had 2,400 residents and was the seat of a local court .

To close this gap, the Prussian state, the province of East Prussia and the Friedland district founded the Wöterkeim – Schippenbeiler Kleinbahn-AG .

The five-kilometer standard-gauge line was opened on June 30, 1907. It began in the Wöterkeim train station on the Bartenstein – Rastenburg line and headed northeast to the town of Schippenbeil on the Alle river .

The management was transferred to the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ODEG) in Königsberg. Nine to ten pairs of trains ran daily.

On August 5, 1930, the Kleinbahn-AG was incorporated into the Ostpreußische Kleinbahnen AG .

In 1939 the following vehicles were available: two steam locomotives, two passenger cars and two freight cars.

Operations ceased due to the war in 1944.

PKP time

The exit station on the main line was called Tałowiec from May 8, 1945, Wiatrowiec from February 1, 1947 and Wiatrowiec Warmiński from September 30, 1947.

However, it was not until May 14, 1950 that operations on the branch line were resumed. Passenger traffic was stopped on October 3, 1953, but resumed on June 1, 1975. The last passenger train ran on May 26, 1990.

Freight traffic was discontinued around 1991 and the route was dismantled until 1999.

literature

• Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 , ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. A9

Individual evidence

1. ^ Linia Wiatrowiec Warmiński - Sępopol (258). In: bazakolejowa.pl. Retrieved February 26, 2018 (Polish).